Well, I guess I’ll start WPF this week. Although not a real biggie, it’s still been a fun project to learn, nonetheless. My first attempt at a grade crossing (uh…minus the grade):
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This one is 2-1/2" wide. I may make them a little wider but the tricky part is fitting them inside the 18" or 22" radius curves. I’m figuring that I’ll need 6-9 of these for my layout.
Tom
Oops, it’s the 27th, not the 20th. You’re carrying this Daylight Savings thing a bit too far. Set your clock back an hour, not a week.
I knew that…[:I] MB, thanks for catching that. Otherwise, I’d have to wait a whole week for a response…
Tom
C’mon. I can’t be the only one who has been doing something this week…?
I have been doing something this week, tstage, I turned on the trains the other night and not very many of my layout lights came but there was a lot of smoke. I have been re-wiring the entire layout, started by ripping out all the old wires and replacing them. Sure am using a lot of wire and heat scrink, non insulated connections were the cause. It did not hurt anything as far as I know now except I fried a wall wart.
I have also been working on Coleman Fuel & Oil Co. also. Here are a few pics. ( I posted them on another post a while ago) Don’t look if you don’t want to. Mike
The interior is completly finished complete with wall hangings and floor coverings
No grade crossings here.
MOW Shay #7 looks up at the mountain top that grew up this past week. It will continue to the wall at the far right in the next two weeks (from the mine to the right).
Wow that looks real good
Since the cows refused to jump into the cars i had to build a ramp
still looking for my stain marking pen
Nice pics. I bought some freight cars this week.
Perhaps I should wait untill I progress further, but it took two days to get to this point. Removed my wye bridges and double checked, cleaned, polished and maas the track that will be covered up on the lower level.
This pic is a mock up to get a few ideas on the tunnel portal at the end of my bridge. Its located on a short shelf as it is between my helix and a 90 degree swing up.
This is the start of tunnel 31 at the west end of the keddie wye. If you ever visited here its on a very busy two lane highway ,limited parking, and ya better look and quickley haul your tush to get to the keddie viewing area, a one foot path behing the gardrail, with the constant wind from passing vichecles. ( have to find a guy holding a camera…LOL). I added a lot of super to the curves to make the traffic look faster, designed it so I can add or remove the super at any time, even if the scenery is done.
Being the shelf is narrow, and I have to keep the bottom area open account of a turnout, I decided to view the area as if in person. So now my visitors will have to look over the guard rail and down to the tunnel. GADDS WHAT WE DO TO HAVE FUNNNN…well we will se how this fiesco progresses over the next few weeks…LOL …John
I weathered some freight cars this week
Jon
Jon, I really like your photos, sooooooooooo nice.
No railroad work here for two weeks. It came time for the kids to have seperate bedrooms for their alternating weekend visits, so I had to play a little chess (with large pieces). It went something like this:
Unpack tools from pick-up truck, store in kid’s room.
Move 800 pound recorder rack to truck.
Pack 3 18 gallon storage bins with camping gear from new bedroom.
Obtain and transport 16 concrete blocks and two sheets 3/4"x 48" x 96" through house to crawlspace for shelving.
Move 150 gallons of bottled water from MBR to crawl.
Move 250 lb treadmill to MBR area vacated by bottled water.
Move 3 18 gallon bins from new BR to spot vacated by treadmill.
Pack 6 more 18 gallon bins, transport to MBR.
Rearrange remaining camping gear and shelves to minimize shelf use.
Move tools from old BR to MBR.
Transport recorder rack to final home.
Move old shelving and assorted junk to truck.
Move lower bunk bed to new BR, fabricate footboard and two legs from materials on hand. (This happened at 0300 Friday AM, I’m sure the neighbors appreciated the sawing and drilling)
Assemble bedding and blankets, consolidate available shelving area, reinforce remaining bunkbed.
Test MBR bed 2 hours.
Pick up kids.
Medicate flu, now in advanced stage of “greenage”.
Four hours advanced MBR bed testing.
And here we are.
Better luck on the layout next week. If all goes well this weekend, the kids will supervise the division of toys and transport of same (without squabbling or malingering), while I maneuver my son’s desk and PC into the space vacated by my daughter’s lower bunk bed, allowing work to commence on the planned layout expansion from 4’ x 10’ to 5’ x 14’, currently limited by access needs to my son’s desk.
One 4’ x 4’ piece of plywood, some 1x4, 30 pieces flextrack, 20 turno
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No railroad work here for two weeks. It came time for the kids to have seperate bedrooms for their alternating weekend visits, so I had to play a little chess (with large pieces). It went something like this:
Unpack tools from pick-up truck, store in kid’s room.
Move 800 pound recorder rack to truck.
Pack 3 18 gallon storage bins with camping gear from new bedroom.
Obtain and transport 16 concrete blocks and two sheets 3/4"x 48" x 96" through house to crawlspace for shelving.
Move 150 gallons of bottled water from MBR to crawl.
Move 250 lb treadmill to MBR area vacated by bottled water.
Move 3 18 gallon bins from new BR to spot vacated by treadmill.
Pack 6 more 18 gallon bins, transport to MBR.
Rearrange remaining camping gear and shelves to minimize shelf use.
Move tools from old BR to MBR.
Transport recorder rack to final home.
Move old shelving and assorted junk to truck.
Move lower bunk bed to new BR, fabricate footboard and two legs from materials on hand. (This happened at 0300 Friday AM, I’m sure the neighbors appreciated the sawing and drilling)
Assemble bedding and blankets, consolidate available shelving area, reinforce remaining bunkbed.
Test MBR bed 2 hours.
Pick up kids.
Medicate flu, now in advanced stage of “greenage”.
Four hours advanced MBR bed testing.
And here we are.
Better luck on the layout next week. If all goes well this weekend, the kids will supervise the division of toys and transport of same (without squabbling or malingering), while I maneuver my son’s desk and PC into the space vacated by my daughter’s lower bunk bed, allowing work to commence on the planned layout expansion from 4’ x 10’ to 5’ x 14’, currently limited by access needs to my son’s desk.
One 4’ x 4’ piece of plywood, some 1x4, 30
love the work on the boxcars, jon…
since i posted my own weekend photo fun post since i missed this one, ill just move my post over in here…
a tree from the first batch my girlfriend and i made! woodland scenics with clump foliage and ground foam… it will be mounted with out the base using a inserted nail into the tree trunk.
Jon, nice work, did you use chalk or paint?
Thanks.
I used acrylic paint diluted with tap water for the washes and drybrushed acrylic for the dust thrown up from the track.
Jon
This is what they did with barrels of toxic waste back in the 1960’s:
Here’s my new pride and joy, I use a cheap autofocuses camera can’t wait to get a good camera.
Green & Yellow, Looks like it should say ''John Deere"
All joking aside the locs is very nice, I like the detail. Did you do it yourself? Mike